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Hi-tech supermarket credit card fraud

Mon, 13 Oct 2008

According to credit card news reports, detectives in the UK are looking into a cunning credit card fraud that involved high technology and customers from the largest supermarkets in the country.

Using new technology, the criminals are thought to have targeted some 40 supermarkets in the UK. These included Asda, Tesco and Sainsburys . Tiny devices inserted into chip and pin machines within the stores may have been transmitting credit card details using wireless technology .

Operators in Lahore, Pakistan, were being sent the information. They then cloned credit cards and stole money from current accounts . The scam was discovered in America, and has now spread to the UK. MPs in the UK have called for a full investigation into the credit card fraud .
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